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A young entrepreneur from Manchester is to stage his debut music festival to compete for up to £1m investment as part of an upcoming BBC competition.

Kris Sparrow, 29, is one of 500 finalists selected from thousands of applicants who will now be challenged to pull off a profitable business venture in under four weeks using £100.

The former events promoter is planning mini music festival ‘Raw Fest’ to showcase Manchester’s finest raw talent across a variety of genres. He hopes to catch the eye of Innocent Fruit Smoothies co-founder and competition judge, Richard Reed, to win the investment in order to take his South Manchester houseshare concept www.idealhouseshare.com to the next level.

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The Northern 2nd Team played host to the Northern 1st Team last Monday night in the big local derby of the North East Cheshire Tennis League Premier Division.

With both teams equally familiar with the new synthetic clay tiger turf courts there were no excuses. The contest of the day saw the points shared between the 1st teams Adam Bradshaw and Martijn De Lange versus 2nds Elliot Street and partner.

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Come and join us for Manchester’s first ever Racketlon Open takes place at the Northern Sunday 27th May 2012.

Racketlon is the fastest growing sport in Europe and combines the four most popular racquetsports in a single match Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis & Badminton.

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Photography exhibition, Another Man’s Treasure, by Oli Mosse

Friday 18 May, 6 pm to 9 pm, Oxfam, 778 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury

Didsbury’s Oxfam Shop provides both the venue and focus for the work of this debut, solo exhibition by local photography student, Oli Mosse.

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Residents, schools, clubs and businesses: please help us support Earth Day (22 April) with a big food planting day in Didsbury.

Seven trees are enough to offset your carbon footprint for a year. What’s more, planting lovely edible plants helps to create more of a sense of community, makes our neighbourhood an even more healthy, attractive place to live, and creates local, seasonal food in every sense of the word.

There are three main ways to get involved:

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